Would you eat...

doom1701 · **Would you eat... -** 03-02-2009, 10:30 AM

An unbranded candy bar that arrived in a unexpected box in the mail, supposedly from a technology research firm?

I just got a box from Lawson Research offering me a $25 gift card if I give away my contact info...I mean "fill out a survey". Included in the box is what appears to be a candy bar wrapped in their logo instead of a brand name. Lunch or trash?

TheIndependent · 03-02-2009, 10:34 AM

Trash/pocket the $25 after filling out the contact card and writing "yummy" on the response field.

pdhenry · 03-02-2009, 10:34 AM

The Lawson Health Research Institute?

Does the survey deal with your opinion of the candy bar?

pseudonym · 03-02-2009, 10:36 AM

Probably. There's no one who wants to poison me badly enough to go such elaborate lengths.

doom1701 · 03-02-2009, 10:36 AM

www.lawson.com is their website.

keirgrey · 03-02-2009, 10:55 AM

Looks like an ERP vendor. I wouldn't worry so much about the sender of the candy bar. I wouldn't eat it, either.

doom1701 · 11:04 AM

I decided to open the bar to see what kind it was; turns out it's a factory sealed Hershey bar that they then "over-wrapped" with their own branded wrapper. I may eat it after all. Still not sure about the gas card; I get enough cold calls from vendors as it is.

Edit: Suddenly got hungry and had a hankering for Chocolate. It's gone now. So everyone knows my answer to the question.

d-dub · 03-02-2009, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by doom1701

I decided to open the bar to see what kind it was; turns out it's a factory sealed Hershey bar that they then "over-wrapped" with their own branded wrapper. I may eat it after all. Still not sure about the gas card; I get enough cold calls from vendors as it is.

Edit: Suddenly got hungry and had a hankering for Chocolate. It's gone now. So everyone knows my answer to the question.

Ugh.... don't eat that crap!

JYoung · 03-02-2009, 12:25 PM

(hopes Doom is not now lying under his desk, clutching his stomach in pain)

mbklein · 03-02-2009, 12:34 PM

At least it wasn't a Baby Ruth bar you found floating in a pool.

procrastinator · 03-02-2009, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mbklein

At least it wasn't a Baby Ruth bar you found floating in a pool.

You're showing your age...

scottjf8 · 03-02-2009, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by pdjplano

Trash/pocket the $25 after filling out the contact card and writing "yummy" on the response field.

This.

Or put "it gave me the shits"

TheIndependent · 03-02-2009, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by scottjf8

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Originally Posted by pdjplano

Trash/pocket the $25 after filling out the contact card and writing "yummy" on the response field.

This.

Or put "it gave me the shits"

AND put, not Or

doom1701 · 03-02-2009, 04:16 PM

I took the survey; they didn't ask about the candy bar or even have a "general comments" section.

We'll have to see if the gas card gets nabbed by accounting before making it to my desk.

evizzle · 03-03-2009, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by procrastinator

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Originally Posted by mbklein

At least it wasn't a Baby Ruth bar you found floating in a pool.

You're showing your age...

I own that movie on HD DVD!

busyba · 03-03-2009, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by doom1701

I decided to open the bar to see what kind it was; turns out it's a factory sealed Hershey bar that they then "over-wrapped" with their own branded wrapper. I may eat it after all.

Hershey? Ugh. I'd have been more likely to eat it when it was "unbranded".

edit: when you use the exact same interjection, that's an impressive smeek.

Cletus · 03-04-2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by doom1701

I decided to open the bar to see what kind it was; turns out it's a factory sealed Hershey bar that they then "over-wrapped" with their own branded wrapper. I may eat it after all. Still not sure about the gas card; I get enough cold calls from vendors as it is.

Edit: Suddenly got hungry and had a hankering for Chocolate. It's gone now. So everyone knows my answer to the question.

Well don't leave us hanging. What happened next?

busyba · 03-04-2009, 02:57 PM

Someone needs to recycle this thread title for a thread about food dares, btw.

dcheesi · 03-07-2009, 10:22 AM

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Someone needs to recycle this thread title for a thread about food dares, btw.

I remember seeing some reality show where they did a food-dare challenge. Except it was clearly amateur hour; instead of the live bugs and animal-testes we've all come to expect, it was all common or traditional prepared dishes from various cultures. Haggis, poi, etc. And the contestants were still freaked out?!?

Granted, they refused to tell them what was in some of the dishes, but I'd heard of most of them and anyway they're all food that lots of people eat...

d-dub · 03-07-2009, 10:26 AM

Live bugs and animal testes *are* actual food products from various cultures

As far as I know, *verything* that contestants had to eat on Fear Factor were considered delicacies in some culture. Whether or not people view them as freaky depends on where they were raised.

dcheesi · 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by d-dub

Live bugs and animal testes *are* actual food products from various cultures

As far as I know, *verything* that contestants had to eat on Fear Factor were considered delicacies in some culture. Whether or not people view them as freaky depends on where they were raised.

I knew someone would nail for that

I should have more clearly differentiated mainstream dishes. But then, it could be argued that once-common signature dishes like haggis and poi are just relics of the past in their homelands, kept alive mostly by tourists...

*shrug* I guess it depends on what you define as "normal", vs. "what the really extreme/desperate back-woods folk eat", etc.

mbklein · 03-07-2009, 08:18 PM

Animal testes haggis?

d-dub · 03-07-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by dcheesi

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Originally Posted by d-dub

Live bugs and animal testes *are* actual food products from various cultures

As far as I know, *verything* that contestants had to eat on Fear Factor were considered delicacies in some culture. Whether or not people view them as freaky depends on where they were raised.

I knew someone would nail for that

I should have more clearly differentiated mainstream dishes. But then, it could be argued that once-common signature dishes like haggis and poi are just relics of the past in their homelands, kept alive mostly by tourists...

*shrug* I guess it depends on what you define as "normal", vs. "what the really extreme/desperate back-woods folk eat", etc.

The thing is, if you grew up in Scotland, haggis wouldn't be at all unusual. If you grew up in Hawaii, you might look forward to eating poi. The only reason they seem unappetizing is that they're strange to you. The same is true for testicles and Madagascar hissing roaches. It's all a matter of the nature of your own bubble of "normal."

dcheesi · 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by d-dub

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Originally Posted by dcheesi

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Originally Posted by d-dub

Live bugs and animal testes *are* actual food products from various cultures

As far as I know, *verything* that contestants had to eat on Fear Factor were considered delicacies in some culture. Whether or not people view them as freaky depends on where they were raised.

I knew someone would nail for that

I should have more clearly differentiated mainstream dishes. But then, it could be argued that once-common signature dishes like haggis and poi are just relics of the past in their homelands, kept alive mostly by tourists...

*shrug* I guess it depends on what you define as "normal", vs. "what the really extreme/desperate back-woods folk eat", etc.

The thing is, if you grew up in Scotland, haggis wouldn't be at all unusual. If you grew up in Hawaii, you might look forward to eating poi. The only reason they seem unappetizing is that they're strange to you. The same is true for testicles and Madagascar hissing roaches. It's all a matter of the nature of your own bubble of "normal."

Oh I gotcha there. I guess I'm thinking more about what's likely to taste good, as opposed to "delicacies" that were acquired only through extreme necessity --eg. fried spiders in Cambodia, supposedly a habit picked up in the Khmer Rouge famine days. But then I guess you could argue that the Scots wouldn't have been off perfecting Haggis if they'd had plenty of filet mignon to go around

d-dub · 03-08-2009, 12:00 PM

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Oh I gotcha there. I guess I'm thinking more about what's likely to taste good, as opposed to "delicacies" that were acquired only through extreme necessity --eg. fried spiders in Cambodia, supposedly a habit picked up in the Khmer Rouge famine days. But then I guess you could argue that the Scots wouldn't have been off perfecting Haggis if they'd had plenty of filet mignon to go around

You may have a point about having an unlimited supply of filet mignon

Many "quisines" evolved out of the survival-based need to not waste anything that was edible. Haggis is a dish that was created to use sheep organs that were otherwise wasted in a way that was palatable.

As for the "taste good" part... again, that's going to be determined by what you're familiar with. If you grew up eating haggis and fried spiders as a normal part of your diet, it's likely that you're going to think they taste good... their flavors would be as normal to you as a hamburger is to Americans.